Unit IA3 : Measuring and Reviewing Health

and Safety Performance

UNIT SUMMARY

Review of Health
and Safety
Performance
Monitoring and
Measurement
Techniques
• Comparison of
Monitoring Systems Performance Data
• Active/Reactive
• Objective/Subjective
• Quantitative/Qualitative

Why carry out Performance

Measurement
• Purpose
• Objectives/Arrangements

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Mea s t
Why? n
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Setting of Tec n
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Objectives

Monitoring Comparison
System
to Other
Data

Reviewing Health and

Safety Performance
Review of Current
Management System

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Why??? (Purpose of Performance
Measurement)
Assess
• Assess effectiveness and appropriateness of Effectiveness

health and safety objectives and arrangements

in terms of:
 Plant, premises, substances (hardware)
 People, procedures, systems (software) Maintain and
Reward
Improve current
Performances
Purpose Success
• Measure and reward success (not penalizing
failure)
• Use results as a basis for making
recommendations for a review of current
Basis for
management system Recommendation

• Maintain and improve health and safety

performance.

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Assessment of Health and Safety
Objectives and Arrangements Setting of Objectives (SMART)
• When assessing effectiveness of S
• Specific
health and safety performance, it
M
has to be measured against some • Measurable

goals or standards (such as A

• Achievable / Attainable
compliance to ILO)
R
• Clear objectives of health and • Realistic

safety must be included in the T

• Timely
Policy Statement

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Monitoring System
Limitations Of Accidents and Ill-Health Data as Performance Measure
1. Accidents should be a rare occurrence, thus numbers are statistically insignificant.
2. Data, especially relating to ill-health, may reflect working conditions due to
previous years.
3. Under-reporting of incidents.
Active VS Reactive Objective VS Subjective Qualitative VS Quantitative
Reactiv
Active Objective Subjective Qualitative Quantitative
e
Organizations Accidents and Not
Procedures Ill-Health Not Represented
Measurable measured
Measurable numerically
numerically

Legislation Loss-Causing
and Standards Events
Eg. Survey

Medical
Absence

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and Safety Performance
Review of Current Management System

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and Safety Performance
Measurement Techniques
Workplace Inspections
Safety Audits Safety Tours
Safety Sampling

Go Go

Safety Survey
A detailed examination of a
particular safety aspect in a
formal report and an action plan
such as fire emergency exits.

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and Safety Performance

Points against
Types of Safety Audits
External Audits

Health and Safety Audits Internal Audit

Done by External Investigation of safety
Organizations / Special Unit systems and practices of the
from Head Office organization, by a team
consisting of safety
Purpose is to assess practitioners and
effectiveness of system production managers.

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Points Against External Health and Safety Audits
1. Time consuming and costly
2. Not feasible to do more than once a year
3. If there is a lot of things to be corrected, it will
take a long time to rectify
4. If there is a long time between the
recommendations being made and the solution
to be put into effect, the value of the audit is
reduced.

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Workplace Inspections Safety Tours Safety Sampling
• Involves a competent • Follows a • Organized system of
person walking predetermined route regular sampling
around a part of a through area • Purpose is to obtain a
premise to look for conducted by a range measure of safety
hazards or non- of personnel from attitudes and possible
compliance with managers to sources of accidents
legislation, rules or supervisors and safety by a systematic
safe practice representatives recording of hazard
• Use of checklist • To deal with hazards situations observed
quickly during inspections
made along a
predetermined route,
concentrating on a
few specific points

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Workplace Inspections / Safety Tours/
Safety Sampling
Points for Points Against
• Can be done more frequently • If done too frequently, action point
than an audit required might not have taken
place when the next inspection
• Management and workers to starts.
be involved, to provide a sense • Affect scoring system
of ownership in the safety • Different inspectors might take
process different approach, strict, lenient.
• Management to demonstrate a Inspectors need to be objective.
commitment to safety, positive • Might only uncover minor matters
influence on safety culture. and fail to uncover larger potential
hazards

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Comparison of
Audits
Performance Data
1. Previous performance
Comparison 2. Performance of similar
Inspection
Tour
of organizations
Sampling
Performance
Data 3. National performance
data
4. Benchmarking
Survey

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Potential Benefits of Benchmarking
• Allow for comparison with other similar industries
• Assure external stakeholders such as insurers, investors, trade
unions and regulators on how the business is meeting their
health and safety responsibilities and managing risks
• Demonstrating commitment to health and safety to promote a
positive safety culture
• Indicator of performance
• Better engagement with stakeholders

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and Safety Performance

Monitoring
Measuring

Comparison
of
Performance
Data

Review
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